By the way...

I forgot to mention one thing in my last entry: We swimmers go through a training phase here at the U, fondly called "Peak Week." We subject ourselves to be on call 24/7 for eight days. We have to be within a 15 minute radius of the pool. Not only do we have to workout, but we also have to do additional activities, such as making a skit-on video, and it has to have a lamp in all the scenes, and you must represent every team in the conference. Or you have to make a calendar featuring members from your team. Or you have to play "night games" for three hours, roaming all over campus at midnight. Or you have to do a picture scavenger hunt. Or you have to do an amazing race. Or you have to to "the gauntlet." Or watch Back to the Future 1, 2, and 3, and know it by heart. Not only know the movie and the storylines, but know the background signs, like "Western Auto Stores," or how much the gas cost in 1955. The list goes on and on. But guess what? We, the Junior Class, known as "The Juniors 9," or "JRS9," won the entire competition overall. Yes, us. Our reward? Oversized wide t-shirts that aren't long enough. But that doesn't matter. We got a prize, and it is awesome. Not only does it say "U swim & dive," but on the back of the shirt it has some Michael Jackson lyrics (We did the "Thriller" dance for our skit, and the Juniors 9 sounds an awful lot like "the Jackson 5.") that we used throughout the week for our cheers and whatnot. We just got the shirts this week. Peak week was almost a month ago. Awesome, awesome.